"Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more."
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"I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone."
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"For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die"
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"No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!"
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"The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?"
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"I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either."
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"You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)"
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"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
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"I have more care to stay than will to go."
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"Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek."
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"The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see."
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"I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage."
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"When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is."
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"I love to learn but I do not want to be taught"
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"I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once."
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"Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around."
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"Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
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"Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves."
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"I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying."
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"I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right."
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